Apple has posted a combo updater for Mac OS X 10.6.4, for those users who want to update from earlier version (Mac OS X 10.6 - Mac OS X 10.6.3) in one fell swoop. The update includes all of the changes and security updates included in Mac OS X 10.6.1, Mac OS X 10.6.2, Mac OS X 10.6.3, and Mac OS X 10.6.4. For more details on the 10.6.4 contents, see our full coverage.
The update is an 887.37MB download from Apple’s Web site.
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An interesting observation. The download is 641Mb in size.
Before the update I had 361.35 Gb free
After the update I have 362.09 Gb Free.
It liberated about 3/4 Gb of hard drive space, actually nearly 1.5Gb if you count the size of the download into this.
cool
(All updates may do this I just never thought to look before)
I’ll bet you had many gigs of “swapfile"s in your invisible ~\private\var\vm folder before you did the post-upgrade Finder restart, which would have emptied that vm folder of your “swapfile"s. (Thank you, OmniDisk Sweeper.)
Warning. I ran software update. Rebooted. My external USB drive (for my Time Machine backups) is now unreadable.
It fried my boot sector. Was working perfectly 20 minutes ago before I ran the update!
I’m NOT happy.
Oh yeah. Forgot about them.
My combo download is 887 MB? Why the Difference in Combo download size I wonder?
Tiger, I know this will be called an Old Witch’s Tale, but I never use Software Update for installations (once a week it tells me there is something available), and I always download from the apple support site.
http://support.apple.com/downloads/
Whenever a OS update is available, I always download the Combo Updater, and keep it for a re-install ? my last line of defense tool.
I don’t know how long Software Update has been around, but I know I have never, not once had a problem using this install method, and I have had success using the Combo Installer as a last-ditch repair tool.
Curious (although probably not the word you chose). Did you use the combo 887 MB update or the 315.5 MB update?
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